Round the world Group Build (Start soon - finish later)

Hmmm i don't normally attach canopies when i paint the uppersurface colours, for some reason it scares me a little but i do paint them at the same time....And from memory the canopy fit isn't that great around the forward section so it would probably be best to fit it and then paint it all together......

The only time i have ever painted a canopy on the model was my latest build Black 8 and thats only because i had to to get the green spots in the right place cause they were on the canopy framing as well as the fueselage.....

I should really do it all the time because it does save time by not having to mask the pit,  i just don't like the idea of 2 coats of future followed by 2 coats of flat clear, i guess i'm paranoid about getting a bleed through on my canopy.....With Black 8 as soon as i had the green spots on i took the canopy off gave it a coat of flat clear and then hid it from my kids until i finished the rest of the model....

Oh, righto then.

How good a fit is the canopy anyways.

Reason is, if I do the upper camo and mottle, wouldn't the canopy already be on the fuse?

pingtang wrote:

This GB might be back on the go fellas. I sent the fuselage of the 109 back to darren today after taking some happy snaps with it. BTW, Sorry it took so long to get the pics done and sent back to Darren. Been kinda distracted the last month or so and just forgot.

Great to see our lil' project making the rounds again

As soon as it gets here I'll get right into it, shouldn't take long.

Besides, this Iwata is so sweet all I have to do now is load the paint cup, set the handle and walk away

And we were going for Bartels 'Red 13' weren't we?

So it should arrive here with the base coat/belly colour done by you right Jules?

Who's doing the canopy masking??

(everyone look at Tom)

It should be all good Tom, Tweets has to do the RLM 74 and 75 uppersurface camo job with all that mottle so he'll probably have her for a while........

BTW you should have taken a few pics of the Damage for us so we could have appreciated properly what happened....

Ahhhh Pingy so it's been you who's been hogging all the Kremp curves lately eh.......

BTW It's good to see the 109 on the move again, When it gets to me i'm gonna drop evrything and get my part done quickly, Hopefully i'll get to Seans within a couple of weeks of me getting it, Just to try and speed things up a bit.....

This GB might be back on the go fellas. I sent the fuselage of the 109 back to darren today after taking some happy snaps with it. BTW, Sorry it took so long to get the pics done and sent back to Darren. Been kinda distracted the last month or so and just forgot.

QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison besides you can't sit this out cause it was your idea...

QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1 And NOT in a good way!!!